Living things

Set against the hard landscape of postwar Australia and moving through the 1950s and 1960s, Snake starts with a premise as frightening and common-place as the deadly bush snake that lurks in the Australian interior: The loyal Rex, a good man, cherishes his wife Irene. Irene, bubbling over with feminine anger and unspecified desire, despises Rex. Into this marriage, this terrible emptiness, two people pour their very lives. Snake is about the loneliness of men married to unkind women, about the unloved becoming unlovable. Irene - an Australian Madame Bovary - moves through these pages like a force of nature. Chapter by brief chapter, Snake tells her story with archetypal force and subtlety - and a mesmerizing, zero-at-the-bone simplicity that literally propels the reader to the novel's stark climax.

The Teens who choose The Caves must fight a monster. If the Teens win, they go free. If they lose, they die. Today the teens fight a spider. The game begins in 10 minutes ... [from back cover].

Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts. So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters program. It recruits those whose histories have preadapted them to dangerous environments, people so used to broken bodies and chronic stress that life on the edge of an undersea volcano would actually be a step up. Nobody worries too much about job satisfaction; if you haven't spent a lifetime learning the futility of fighting back, you wouldn't be a rifter in the first place. It's a small price to keep the lights going, back on shore. But there are things among the cliffs and trenches of the Juan de Fuca Ridge that no one expected to find, and enough pressure can forge the most obedient career-victim into something made of iron. At first, not even the rifters know what they have in them―and by the time anyone else finds out, the outcast and the downtrodden have their hands on a kill switch for the whole damn planet...

Ever since they formed The Saddle Club, Stevie, Carole, and Lisa have been inseparable. So they’re all feeling a little sad at the thought of not being together for the Christmas holidays. But while Lisa is riding along the beautiful beaches of sunny San Marco, Stevie will be combing the mall for the perfect New Year’s Eve dress. And Carole will be training Starlight, the gorgeous bay gelding she got for Christmas! But no one’s holiday goes smoothly, especially Lisa’s. On her first day at the San Marco stables, she takes an embarrassing fall, just like a beginner! And that’s not the worst of it: The volcanic terrain and tricky footing of the tiny island can be confusing to horses — and lethal for their riders. Just as Lisa’s confidence in her riding plummets to an all-time low, a dangerous mishap will put her horseback skills to the ultimate test… and have her missing her Saddle Club friends like crazy!

Photographs and text describe flytraps, sundews, butterworts, and other plants that consume insects, worms, and even small frogs.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of octopuses and several similar creatures.

Twit Twooooo, read this together with your toddler and find out how a helpless feathery chick grows inside a shell into a strong hunting owl.Watch the owl get bigger in fantastic photographs bursting with colour, and share easy-to-follow words ideal for reading out loud to the very young.

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of a variety of large turtles, including the green sea turtle, leatherback, and Galapagos tortoise.

She was haunted by his lovemaking... Television actress Siobhan Ryan was electrified -- and dismayed -- by the news. Producer Jake Deerfield wanted to meet her! Would he remember her as the hot-tempered waitress who had once silenced his insults with a lemon pie? That stormy incident two years earlier had been followed by a night of unforgettable delight. Jake was the demanding lover who had swept into her heart -- for one brief interlude. At last she was about to face him again. And this time on her own terms!

Examines the physical characteristics, life cycle, and natural habitat of different types of crabs.